Perpetual month display calendar
OwnerJavier Ken-San Yep Valenciainventor
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Abstract
A perpetual month display calendar, consisting of three components: a month/day display loop, a date display loop, and a back cover, configured independently and assembled together to display a full month's information. The desired month is selected by vertically shifting the month/day display loop pieces and positioning the piece of the corresponding month on the top front section. The layout of the dates is selected by horizontally shifting the date display loop pieces, which then embrace the month/day display loop. The back cover is attached to enhance the appeal and functionality of the back of the calendar. The calendar does not comprise small loose individual pieces, allowing its manipulation with no concern of possibly losing one of them.
Claims3
A perpetual month display calendar consisting of:
- a month/day display loop, comprising 12 horizontal pieces shaped as rectangular prisms, characterized in that they contain 2 vertical holes that bear 2 vertical elastic bands that bind the pieces together forming a flexible and expandable loop;
- and that the pieces display, on the upper front area, the name of a month, and on the front lower area, the days of the week initials horizontally aligned and equidistant from each other;
- a date display loop, into which said month/day display loop is inserted, comprising a plurality of vertical pieces characterized in that they are shaped as rectangular prisms;
- that consist of 9 large pieces that display 5 cells on the front side, 5 medium pieces that display 4 cells on the front side, and 5 small pieces that display 1 cell on the front side and are blank on the back side;
- that said large and medium pieces contain 2 horizontal holes that bear 2 horizontal elastic bands that bind them together;
- and that the small pieces are attached to the medium pieces on the top or bottom, using a means that allows the small pieces to rotate freely, in order to hide or expose the numbers displayed on them;
- that each display loop piece contains cells that either display a number or are blank;
- that one large piece is left blank and is positioned opposed to the medium piece displaying the first date of the month;
- that when the date display loop is flattened, the arrangement of the 7 front pieces displays a layout of numbers arranged in a 7×5 grid (7 columns by 5 rows), which are horizontally sequenced until the seventh column, resuming the sequence on the first column of the next row;
- and that said arrangement can be configured to form the 7 possible month layouts by shifting the pieces horizontally, namely, having the first date of the month matching any of the 7 days of the week;
- and a back cover, attached to the other assembled components, comprising 2 upper hooks that are inserted in the 2 vertical holes that bear the vertical elastic bands of the month/day display loop, and a front panel that can perform one or more of the following functions:
- a blank flat surface, a marketing display for business-related imagery and/or text, a photo frame, a chalkboard, and/or a corkboard.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.